Entries for July 2000

Flora Lewis was one of handful of women who forged successful careers as foreign correspondents. From her first reporting assignment as a UCLA campus stringer for the Los Angeles Times to her job as The New York Times foreign affairs columnist, Lewis's cleanly crafted prose and wide-ranging intellect brought the world into focus for her readers.

Zamira Sydykova, editor-in-chief of Res Publica, an independent newspaper founded in Kyrgyzstan in the wake of the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, is a leader in the independent media in Central Asia.

Marie Colvin has fearlessly reported from behind the front lines of nearly every violent conflict in the world in the last 15 years. In 2000, she brought readers of The Sunday Times closer to conflicts in Kosovo, East Timor and Chechnya.

In Burundi, independent journalists covering the ongoing six-year civil war risk death threats from both sides of the conflict. Still, freelance journalist Agnes Nindorera broadcasts what she sees, despite escalating threats to her life. She pursues the story of a civil war in which 200,000 people have died, caught in a conflict between Tutsi-dominated Burundian government forces and Hutu rebels.